Open to advisory and leadership roles
Gediminas
Strelčiūnas
Engineering Manager at Oxylabs. I build self-managed teams and make delivery predictable — currently 33 people across 4 teams. Based in Vilnius, Lithuania.
Experience
Ten years of building and leading teams.
The Telia bars overlap: for 15 months the service-management role and the Scrum Master role ran at the same time.
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06/2025 — Now Current
Engineering Manager
- Lead engineering operations for the Dashboard product team — 33 people across 4 teams.
- Expanded the team by 40% in six months.
- Restructured the org: introduced Squad Lead and Staff Engineering roles, and a level-up process.
- Unified expectations and metrics across teams, and created an initiative ownership model that distributes tech-lead load.
- Unified the QA process and introduced high-level estimation for better planning accuracy.
- Shifted the culture to predictable delivery, with positive survey results inside six months.
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2023 — Now Side business
Founder
MB Hassas · Smart homes
- Founded a smart-home company that designs and installs home automation for apartments and houses, built on open-source technology.
- One system for lighting, blinds, heating and ventilation, solar and home batteries, and multimedia — run by switches, an app, voice or automations.
- Projects in homes across Vilnius and Panevėžys, plus a demo apartment in Vilnius.
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06/2021 — 06/2025 4 yrs
Delivery Manager
- Hired developers and formed new teams for software delivery projects.
- Built and shaped scaled agile delivery processes.
- Owned delivery success across projects, including P&L on selected accounts.
- Built commercial offers for sales proposals and negotiations.
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03/2020 — 06/2021 15 mo
Agile Scrum Master
Integrations & Middleware
- The team built and maintained integrations across internal and external systems, plus middleware.
- Ran quarterly increments split into six sprints.
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05/2018 — 06/2021 3 yrs
IT Service Manager
DevOps & Software Support
- Built a support organization from scratch for the Telia order management system as it entered operations.
- The team reduced developer load through testing, monitoring, master-data fixes, migrations and small dev tasks.
- Appointed Service Owner for this and several legacy systems — change management, availability, audits, infrastructure upgrades.
- Manager to a team of 8.
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05/2016 — 05/2018 2 yrs
Technical Team Lead
POS IT Support
- Led a team of 17: ten second-line and four third-line support specialists, and three developers.
- Ran end-to-end support operations during shift, and set up an on-site test lab for bug reproduction.
- Identified and proposed multiple UX improvements.
- Moved development activity to Lithuania, reducing cost and improving service availability.
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02/2015 — 05/2016 15 mo
Team Lead
Payment Systems
- Led a team of 6 — recruiting, performance reviews and reporting to senior management.
- Made the team the clients' first point of contact, taking that role over from Customer Service Managers.
- Led the migration of the organisation's incident management tool.
- Cut onboarding time for new team members in half without losing quality.
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03/2013 — 02/2015 2 yrs
IT Consultant
Payment Systems
- 24/7/365 support for a payment gateway processing payments in 240+ countries and 120+ currencies, including a major card network's mobile payments.
- Drove the highest-priority incidents to resolution: root cause from logs, coordination across global support, development and vendors, then the RCA.
- Wrote the day-to-day and major-incident procedures for a newly formed team.
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02/2011 — 03/2013 2 yrs
Remote Desktop Support Engineer
IT Service Desk
- Promoted from first-line to second-line service desk, then to remote desktop support engineer, in two years.
- Supported the bank's internal estate — Windows, Office, Citrix, Exchange, Active Directory, encryption and VPN.
- Managed the service desk knowledge base and set up support models for newly deployed systems.
Selected work
Delivery across cybersecurity, banking, health and the public sector.
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Public sector · MEA
National tax system rollout
Responsible for the successful delivery of a new national tax system, with a team of 60 developers across 3 locations.
60 developers3 locationsNation scale
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Cybersecurity
Post-acquisition integration
Integrated an acquired company's product development teams and DevOps processes into Nortal.
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Health
Distributed delivery team
Set up a delivery team and the processes to run it across 3 locations for a health-sector customer.
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Banking
M&A platform consulting
Led a consulting engagement around a banking acquisition, advising on how to merge two banking platforms.
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Banking
Platform merge delivery
Project and delivery management for the team that merged two banking platforms.
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Internal R&D
Bench R&D pipeline
Set up the process, backlog, monitoring and forecasting for Nortal Lithuania employees between projects.
Approach
Clear expectations, distributed ownership, ruthless prioritisation.
I focus on building self-managed teams, scaling agile processes, and creating a workplace culture people want to stay in. The outcome I optimise for is predictable delivery.
Strengths
Credentials
- 2022PMP
- 2020Agile Product Owner
- 2019Agile Scrum Master
- 2015ITIL v3 Foundation
- 2013BSc Construction Engineering
Contact
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